Norfolk State Hosts CASE Media Fellowship Program

Norfolk, Va.- Norfolk State University will host Welfare Reform: Lessons Learned Across the Nation, a two-day Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Media Fellowship conference, March 14-15.

The University will host approximately ten journalists from across the country on campus.The journalists will be involved in an intense program with University faculty to discuss welfare reform.Workshop topics will include an overview of welfare reform and why the topic is important; what’s going on now-welfare to work project results (Virginia’s case); welfare reform: the effects on families and children; welfare reform: the effects learned in Maryland; assisting the hard to serve populations: the Franklin Model; and interviews with former welfare recipients.

The University was one of only 24 proposals accepted nationwide out of a pool of hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and South Africa. A group of senior media representatives from top news organizations including CNN, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Washington Post select the fellowships to be offered. Judges choose fellowships that will be of greatest interest to journalists based on subject matter, programming, and participation by experienced faculty.

CASE, the largest international association of education associations, helps its members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education. CASE also offers a variety of advancement products and services, provides standards and an ethical framework for the profession, and works with other organizations to respond to public issues of concern, while promoting the importance of education worldwide.

For more information, call News and Media Relations at 823-8373.